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@fthe @anni LAWSON P. KEACH, OF BALTI MORE, MARYLAND. Letters PatentNo. 86,165, dated J mma/ry 26, 1869; antedated Janna/ry l1, 1869.

COMBINED BOOT-JACK AND BLACKING-CABINET.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWSON P. KEACH, of the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementfor Combining with the ordinary Boot-J ack a Blacking-Gabinet, to contain the box of blacking and brush, and the whole so contrived as to be used, at pleasure, either as a boot-jack or stand to support the foot while blacking the boot or shoe on the saine, the following being a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the aecompanying drawing, which forms part of the specification. l i

My improvement has reference to the common board boot-jack, the space under which, at its usual and necessary elevation, (the rear part being raised to a level with the hollow end,) being economized by enclosing it on three sides, in the rear of the notch or hollow end, forming a box, which opens at said end to receive and enclose the brush when not in use; and

on the top of said board, having thick-head nails, or other suitable prop, for the double purpose of sustaining the sole of the boot or shoe secure from slipping, while the upper is being blacked or polished on the foot, or for the placing of one foot to draw the boot from the other; and the bottom of said box is co1n,

posed of sheet-metal, to afford suiicient space for the brush without too great an elevation of the boot-jack.

The remaining space under the hollow end of the top board or boot-jack is used as a place for the blacking-case when closed, in the following ingenious and novel manner:

The said blacking-case or box is so arranged with hinges as to swing out when the apparatus is required to be used for either of the above purposes, and opening at the righi'fhand side when blacking is required to be used therefrom.

The bottom part of said hinged box or blaokingcase is a solid block, the thickness of which is half the height of the outside of the whole apparatus, and in the top surface of said block is carved or bored a round space, of suicient depth to contain an ordinary tin box of paste-blacking.

The top part of said `case is also a solid block` the thickness of which fills the remaining height of space under the top or boot-jack board, and also has a cutting on its surface, similar to that in the 'bottoni block, of sufficient depth to contain the cover of said tin box of blacking, for the convenience of holding water, or of working the brush with blacking to be applied to the leather.

Attached by a hinge to the top part of the hereindescribed case for the box of blacking, is a block, of the thickness and shape of the hollow or notch of the boot-jack, which, exactly fitting the hollow space, opens and closes into the saine, and with theadditionof a small project-ion ofthe sheetfmetal bottoni ofthe brushbox at the opening end, serves the purpose of a couiplete fastening to the whole cabinet, as well as giving the same a neat and finished appearance when closed; and `also serves the purpose of elevating the upper partofthe blacking-ease, to make the cover level and firm with the box of blacking when open and in use, as above described.

I do not claim of itself the shape of the boot-jack board, or the box which supports it, which are common; but

I do claiml. The hinged case A, with a cavity in one part for the blacking-box and its cover, attached to the oppo site part, so that it can ne utilized, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination and arrangement of the ease A with the boot-jack B and brush-box C, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 12th day of June, 1868.

l LAWSON P. KEACH.

Witnesses:

CHARLES WALTER, WM. CYRIL Kanon. 

